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UAV Flight Simulator to Improve Elders’ Quality of Life

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The quality of life in older people deteriorates faster, depending if these have a sedentary lifestyle. Technology is used as a tool in various fields and there are some applications that have been developed to encourage sports through entertainment, this is the case of the Nintendo Wii. The positive impact of this kind of application has been the base in the development of this research. Our proposal focuses on the easy handling of a drone by sensing arm movements through wearable devices, and providing an immersive experience of being in a different place using virtual reality glasses. The aim is to promote the user’s cognitive development, due to the hand-eye coordination required to control the drone. Finally, this research, manages to integrate virtual reality with Bluetooth technologies, establishing real-time communication with wearable devices and human movement.

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  1. Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación, Grupo de Investigación en Modelos de Producción de Software, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Sangolqui, Ecuador

    Christian Bustamante Crespo & Graciela Guerrero Idrovo

  2. School of Technology and Management, Computer Science and Communication Research Centre, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

    Christian Bustamante Crespo, Nuno Rodrigues & Antonio Pereira

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Baixo Mondego, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Nova IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  4. DSI/EEUM, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  5. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

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Crespo, C.B., Idrovo, G.G., Rodrigues, N., Pereira, A. (2017). UAV Flight Simulator to Improve Elders’ Quality of Life. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 571. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56541-5_57

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